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[Tim Saylor <tim.saylor@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

My screen will flash black repeatedly and the mouse and sound will
freeze.  Sometimes it will only flash a couple times and come back to
normal, but often it will keep flashing many times and remain frozen
until x crashes.  While it's frozen I can't ctrl-alt-f1 to another
terminal.  I've only noticed it happening when I'm using firefox, but
that's the vast majority of my computer use so I'm not sure that's
relevant.  Sometimes when it comes back from a flashing episode the
window will be scrambled to some extent.  There's no specific event that
I'm aware of that triggers this.

I tried to include everything you'd need in this report, please let me
know if there's more that's necessary.  (Unfortunately I'd have to wait
until it happens again to gather that, and it's unpredictable)

Backtrace:
0: /usr/X11R6/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x79) [0x80c3019]
1: [0xb7f49400]
Saw signal 11.  Server aborting.
(II) UnloadModule: "kbd"
(II) UnloadModule: "mouse"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Macintosh mouse button emulation: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
(II) PS/2 Mouse: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Video Bus: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Video Bus: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Video Bus: Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(II) Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM): Close
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"


tsaylor@tsaylor-laptop:/var/log$ lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu 8.10
Release:	8.10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/.bin/:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/:/usr/local/flex/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) ) #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 18:59:16 UTC 2009

SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i686
xkbcomp:

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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screen starts flashing and freezes or crashes X
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379228
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